Bill Maher‘s comments Friday night on his “Real Time with Bill Maher” show on HBO, defending Paula Deen, may have surprised some. Maher called Deen a “hot mess, y’all,” but still came to her defense. “This may have been a shakedown,” said Maher. “People may have been trying to shake her down. That happens all […]
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Watching Paula Deen‘s cooking show was a weekend ritual for Marilynne Wilson, who says she’s furious at the Food Network for dumping the comfort-food queen after she acknowledged using racial slurs in the past. “I was shocked. I thought she’d get a fair trial,” Wilson, a nurse from Jacksonville, Fla., said […]
Ludacris’ African girlfriend, Eudoxie Agnan headed back home to Gabon to gift little African girls with dolls. The dolls she chose didn’t reflect the chocolate…
Now that Southern soul food maven Paula Deen has shown her true colors, the only question is how much her multimillion-dollar cooking empire will suffer. A discrimination suit filed by Lisa Jackson, a White former manager at one of Deen’s restaurants made little news until the deposition became public this week. In it, Deen admits […]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois Republican official resigned from his leadership post Thursday amid outrage over an email in which he berated a biracial former Miss America as a “street walker” who could fill a law firm’s “minority quota” if she loses her bid for Congress. The controversy, involving a county GOP leader in […]
People of color have endured stress on various levels including that of judgement and impairment by others. As time has passed, the level of perceived…
Will African American women ever tire of discussing the inherent problems of being born with dark skin instead of light skin? Apparently not. In a new documentary called “Dark Girls, which will be featured on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network, the film “goes underneath the surface to explore the prejudices that dark-skinned women face throughout the […]
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Celebrity cook Paula Deen says she has used racial slurs in the past but insists she and her brother, who are accused of racial and sexual discrimination in a lawsuit by a former manager of their restaurant, don’t tolerate hateful behavior. In a court deposition filed Monday in federal court, an […]
ROME (AP) — Italy’s first black Cabinet minister is facing Internet death threats before a visit to a region known for its anti-immigrant political base. Cecile Kyenge, a Congolese-born doctor who has lived in Italy since 1983, has been the target of racist diatribes ever since she was named integration minister in April. Last week, […]
Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona is apologizing for the repugnant behavior of his son Tanner according to Yahoo News. Tanner in February and March was seen posting various anti-Semitic, homophobic and racist posts on both his Twitter and Facebook accounts. Check out examples below: “To the f—-t who stole my dirt bike from the church […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Minority renters and homebuyers deployed to test for housing discrimination did not run into the blatant discrimination of four decades ago, but were told about and shown fewer homes than their white counterparts with similar backgrounds, according to the results of a major federal housing study released Tuesday. The Department of Housing […]
Five years ago, Brian James Moudry (pictured), a self-avowed White supremacist, burned down a Black family’s Chicago home. Now the man who lived only five houses away…
